A MARITIME RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS IN AREA STUDIES     

MARTIN W. LEWIS  KREN WIGEN 《Geographical review》1999,89(2):161-168

ABSTRACT. The area-studies model of global scholarship, based on dividing the world into a set number of large, quasi-continental regions, is under assault from a variety of intellectual and institutional forces. New, less rigid models of global scholarship are increasingly being called for by both scholars and funding agencies. One useful alternative, currently being explored at Duke University, reframes area studies around ocean and sea basins. Putting maritime interactions at the center of vision brings to light a set of historical regions that have largely remained invisible on the conventional map of the world.  相似文献   

EARLY MODERN EXPANSION AND THE POLITICIZATION OF OCEANIC SPACE*     

ELIZABETH MANCKE 《Geographical review》1999,89(2):225-236

ABSTRACT. The definition of oceans as international politicized space is an integral but little analyzed aspect of early modern European expansion, which took place between about 1450 and 1800. In this essay I explore the implications of thinking about the development of European imperialism and global dominance in oceanic terms. I argue that oceanic, rather than terrestrial, dominance characterized early modern European empires, particularly in relation to Africa and Asia, where indigenous political and economic control prevailed. The long apprenticeship in mastering oceanic space contributed to the ability of Europeans to build land-based empires in Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century. As well, the international relationships worked out by Europeans in the nonstate but militarized arena of the high seas contributed to an emergent global order.  相似文献   

Holocene deglaciation and recent ice-marginal processes in west Greenland,F. G. M. VAN TATENHOVE,PhD Thesis,Universiteit van Amsterdam 1995; (202 pp) ISBN 90-6787-039-0     

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